| 单词 | household |
| 释义 | household (once / 133 pages) n How many people does your house hold? That’s your household! A household refers to a family or group of people living together. It’s a social unit under one roof. All the people living in your house, including servants, make up your household. Don’t have any servants? Well, your roommates count as part of your household, too. In the middle of the night, your household might be asleep. Your household income could determine whether or not you get the pool in the backyard. Household can also be an adjective to describe — you guessed it — things that are in your house, like household appliances or household furniture. WORD FAMILYhousehold: householder, households+/householder: householders USAGE EXAMPLESThe company said Frontier subscribers represented less than 3 percent of the total households in Seattle. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) Before slavery was restricted by the Spanish crown, in 1542, slaving parties scoured Honduras, kidnapping Indians to work plantations, mines, and households. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Research from this year shows that as M-Pesa became more available in a local area, households became less poor — particularly households run by women. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) n a social unit living together It was a good Christian household Syn|Hypo|Hyper family, home, house, menage broken home a family in which the parents have separated or divorced conjugal family, nuclear familya family consisting of parents and their children and grandparents of a marital partner extended familya family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives foster familythe family of a fosterling foster homea household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency) menage a troishousehold for three; an arrangement where a married couple and a lover of one of them live together while sharing sexual relations social unit, unit an organization regarded as part of a larger social group |
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